One Always Writes Comedy At The Moment

If You Decide To Move To Another Country And To Live Within Its Laws You Don't Express Your Disregard For The Essence Of The Culture. It's A Form Of Aggression.

As A Child I Knew Almost Nothing, Nothing Beyond What I Had Picked Up In My Grandmother's House. All Children, I Suppose, Come Into The World Like That, Not Knowing Who They Are.

I Don't Feel I Can Speak With Authority For Many Other People.

I Feel That At Any Stage Of My Literary Career It Could Have Been Said That The Last Book Contained All The Others.

I Think When You See So Many Hindu Temples Of The 10th Century Or Earlier Disfigured, Defaced, You Realise That Something Terrible Happened. I Feel The Civilisation Of That Closed World Was Mortally Wounded By Those Invasions The Old World Is Destroyed. That Has To Be Understood. Ancient Hindu India Was Destroyed.